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The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids by Robert Bauval 9780099429272
RRP: $23.08$16.78Unlocking the secrets of the pyramids.For thousands of years the pyramids have stood, imposing and enigmatic, refusing to give up their secrets. In this thrilling book of scientific and historical detective work, the authors try to answer some of... -
A Force To Be Reckoned With: A History of the Women's Institute Jane Robinson 9781844086603
RRP: $23.08$15.98Everyone knows three things about the Women's Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; and, more recently, that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair. But there's so much more to this remarkable Movement. Over... -
Old Skye Tales: Traditions, Reflections and Memories by William Mackenzie
RRP: $18.88$13.73In this book William Mackenzie records a world of local legend, folklore and superstition, and charts the changes he saw in his lifetime in agriculture, education, the Church and, of course, emigration. He recounts the history of the leading families of... -
Leeds in the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies by Yorkshire Evening Post 9781780911151
$33.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780911151Author Yorkshire Evening PostFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen 9780007140978 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.18$4.81An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen's Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004's most talked about books. In 1979 two events occurred that would... -
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen
RRP: $25.18$18.19An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen's Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004's most talked about books. In 1979 two events occurred that would... -
The Nine Lives of John Ogilby: Britain's Master Map Maker and His Secrets by Alan Ereira
RRP: $27.28$18.63Four hundred years ago, every barrister had to dance because dancing put them in harmony with the universe. John Ogilby's first job, in 1612, was to teach them. By the 1670s, he was Charles II's Royal Cosmographer, creating beautiful measured drawings... -
Reporting the Troubles 2: More Journalists Tell Their Stories of the Northern Ireland Conflict by Deric Henderson
RRP: $35.68$30.07In this follow-up to their landmark first book, Deric Henderson and Ivan Little have gathered new stories from seventy journalists who have worked in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. These contributors write powerfully about the victims they have... -
Haunted Oxford by Rob Walters 9780752439259
RRP: $31.48$24.61New and well-known spooky tales from around the historic City of Oxford.Book InformationISBN 9780752439259Author Rob WaltersFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past by Richard Cohen
RRP: $52.50$48.59MAKING HISTORY is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama - continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today. In... -
Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations Arnold van de Laar 9781473633681
RRP: $27.28$18.54'This is history with a surgeon's touch: deft, incisive and sometimes excruciatingly bloody' The Sunday Times'Utterly eccentric and riveting' Mail on Sunday 'Eye-opening and, frequently, eye-watering . . . a book that invites readers to peer up the... -
An Army At Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
RRP: $35.68$24.23The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the... -
The Roman Forum David Watkin 9781861978059
RRP: $18.88$13.97There are few more historic and evocative places in the world. Caesar was cremated there. Charles V and Mussolini rode by it in triumph. There Napoleon celebrated his festival of liberty. In this radical reappraisal David Watkin teaches us to see the... -
Hungary: A Short History Norman Stone (Professor) 9781788160513
RRP: $23.08$16.78The victors of the First World War created Hungary from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but, in the centuries before, many called for its creation. Norman Stone traces the country's roots from the traditional representative councils of... -
Secret Stoke-on-Trent by Mervyn Edwards
RRP: $33.58$22.79Why did the young girls of Longton rush to touch lamp posts, iron pillars or railings whenever they saw the local rector? Who were the Potteries 'resurrectionists' involved in body-snatching from St John's churchyard, Burslem, in 1831? Why did some... -
The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics by Kenan Malik
RRP: $27.28$18.48In this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer's Greece to Mao's China, from ancient India to modern America. It tells the stories of the great... -
Christianity in the West, 1400-1700 by John Bossy 9780192891624
RRP: $79.78$67.31A study not of the institution of the Church but of Christianity itself, this book explores the Christian people, their beliefs, and their way of life, providing a new understanding of Western Christianity at the time of the Reformation. Bossy begins... -
Compact Wales: Rhinogydd - Ancient Routes and Old Roads by Jean Napier
RRP: $12.50$11.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845242718Author Jean NapierFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Llygad Gwalch CyfPublisher Llygad Gwalch Cyf -
The Yards of Kendal by Trevor Hughes 9781781556528
RRP: $31.48$23.33Yards, crofts ginnels and lanes are found in many northern towns. Kendal's yards are special and are fascinating to residents and visitors alike. They are a characteristic feature of the town and demonstrate the lively history of the people who lived and... -
Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV by Amanda Wunder 9780300246544
RRP: $94.50$84.80Bringing to life the world of Spanish royal tailor Mateo Aguado and his colleagues during the reign of Philip IV, and exploring the distinctive look of the court in seventeenth-century Madrid Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez is the first archival... -
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson 9781416526155
RRP: $25.18$17.24From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force more influential than France, Britain, Italy,... -
The Wrench by Primo Levi
RRP: $20.98$14.70'This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any of us... -
The Little Book of Birmingham by Norman Bartlam
RRP: $31.48$24.61The Little Book of Birmingham is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Here we find out about the city's most unusual crimes and punishments,... -
Spill the Beans: Global Coffee Culture and Recipes by Gestalten
RRP: $73.50$53.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040357Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag -
Queen Victoria and The Romanovs: Sixty Years of Mutual Distrust by Coryne Hall
RRP: $23.08$15.67Despite their frequent visits to England, Queen Victoria never quite trusted the Romanovs. In her letters she referred to 'horrid Russia' and was adamant that she did not wish her granddaughters to marry into that barbaric country. 'Russia I could not... -
Custer's Fall: The Native American Side of the Story by David Miller
RRP: $37.80$24.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452010956Author David MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Dom Pedro the Magnanimous, Second Emperor of Brazil Mary Wilhelmine Williams 9780415760287
RRP: $92.38$81.56Originally published in 1937. This biography of Dom Pedro's reign tells how he met the problems arising from relations with the neighboring South American states, the premature political system of his own country, the struggle between church and state,... -
Assassins' Deeds: A History of Assassination from the Pharaohs of Egypt to the Present Day by John Withington
RRP: $42.00$41.24Assassins have been killing the powerful and famous for at least three thousand years. Personal ambition, revenge, and anger have encouraged many to violent deeds, like the Turkish sultan who had nineteen of his brothers strangled or the bodyguards who... -
The Guide to Mysterious Glasgow by Geoff Holder 9780752448268
RRP: $33.58$26.10This is the essential guide to everything strange, marvellous, mysterious and paranormal in Glasgow, with a street-by-street description of all things bizarre and supernatural connected with the city. As well as a complete guide to all of the city's... -
Footsteps by Richard Holmes
RRP: $23.08$16.78Richard Holmes's great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume 'Sidetracks'. In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called Footsteps and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring... -
Atlas of Medieval Europe by David Ditchburn
RRP: $71.38$63.84The Atlas of Medieval Europe covers the period from the fall of the Roman Empire through to the beginnings of the Renaissance, spreading from the Atlantic coast to the Russian steppes. Each map approaches a separate issue or series of events in medieval... -
The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic by Ruth Dudley Edwards
RRP: $20.98$15.37On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... -
Shopfronts of London: In praise of small neighbourhood shops by Eleanor Crow
RRP: $31.48$22.76A collection of Eleanor Crow's beautiful watercolours of classic shopfronts. Published in partnership with Spitalfields Life Books, this timely volume celebrates the small neighbourhood shops of London. As our high streets decline into generic monotony,... -
Crash Bang Wallop: The Inside Story of London's Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World by Iain Martin 9781473625105 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$5.57Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', Crash Bang Wallop will tell the gripping story of how the changes introduced in the 1980s in the City of London transformed our world.Attitudes to money and the way... -
Crash Bang Wallop: The Inside Story of London's Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World by Iain Martin 9781473625105
RRP: $23.08$19.40Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', Crash Bang Wallop will tell the gripping story of how the changes introduced in the 1980s in the City of London transformed our world.Attitudes to money and the way... -
Slightly Married: Number 3 in series by Mary Balogh
RRP: $20.98$14.70Colonel Lord Aidan Bedwyn has come to Ringwood Manor to keep his promise to a dying fellow officer. He has sworn to protect the man's sister no matter what - even when he finds that Miss Eve Morris wants no part of his protection. Finally, Aidan makes... -
Churches of Cambridgeshire by John E. Vigar
RRP: $33.58$22.79Cambridgeshire is a large and diverse county, and this is reflected in its churches. In the south, chalk provided flints for even the grandest of churches. The Fens in the north and east had no building materials of their own, so limestone was... -
Yorkshire: There and Back Andrew Martin 9781472154859
RRP: $42.00$29.30In Yorkshire: There and Back, Andrew Martin celebrates Britain's most charismatic county, looking back at the Yorkshire of his 1970s childhood and as it is today.Journeying to every historic corner, Martin writes affectionally about its past, present and... -
A Brief History of the Knights Templar by Helen Jane Nicholson 9781849011006
RRP: $23.08$8.97Much has been written about the Knights Templar in recent years. A leading specialist in the history of this legendary medieval order now writes a full account of the Knights of the Order of the Temple of Solomon, to give them their full title, bringing... -
Attlee and Churchill: Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace by Leo McKinstry
RRP: $31.48$21.97Chosen as a Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail'A masterpiece' Frederick Forsyth 'Beautifully written... unlikely to be surpassed' Simon Heffer'Superb' Daily Mail, Book of the Week'Terrific' ObserverThroughout history there have been...